Osho Ganga By S Dhammo Sannanno - Sermon

The enlightened person himself is the proof of God-(Lecture-Fifth)

The Buddha is God himself - (5th Sermon) Think twice, think here, and you will be thinking the wrong thing. So sochati so vihagbhti diswa kammakilitthamattano..13.. Idh modati pechcha modati katpugbhe ubhayattha modati. So modati so pamodati disva kammavisuddhimatno..14. Idh Tappati Pechcha Tappati Papakari Ubhayattha Tappati. Paam me katanti tappati bhiyyo tappati duggatingto..15. Bahumpi che sahitham bhasmano na takkaro hoti naro pamatto. 16. Appampi che sahitham bhasmano dhammassa hoti anudhammachari. Ragagch sampappajano sampappajano ragagch mohan. Anupadiyano Idh Va Huram Va Sa Bhagva Samagbhas Hoti..17. Is the life of a beggar a cloak that is adorned with patches of suffering every second? Does life resemble the beggar's cloak, where patches of new pain are added every minute? The life wanted you to be an emperor. The life is not for beggars. The life is now a beggar cloak. It has become a cloak for beggars. The life creates Emperors and the man is a Beggar. Every person is born as an emperor and dies as a beggar. Each child is a brand new empire. Every old man leaves behind a story of sadness. Life is a sum of sorrow. The fault isn't with life. The fault lies in our way of life. It is the fault of how you live. The wrong way to live. Where gold might have fallen, only ashes were found. Instead of flowers, thorns were present where they could have been. Where the Temple of God's doors would have been opened, only Hell was made. You are in control of your life. It is important to understand that life cannot be manufactured. The life isn't given to you, but it must be earned. You get a piece of blank paper, or a slate. You decide what you want to write. You can tell a sad story. You can compose a joyous song. Nearglory Hotel Escort Gurgaon This is not right -- Life is a pauper’s cloak What is a constant source of pain? It is not right. If we take a look at the man then this appears to be true. Sometimes Buddha, Mahavira and Kabir lived in a completely different manner, making their entire life a joyous celebration. Kabir said that Kabira covered himself carefully with the blanket. However, as things were, he left the sheet behind. With care. How carefully and consciously you lead your life will determine how you feel. Remember that if you're unhappy, it means you don't live with attention. Remember that if your sadness continues to grow, you are going in the wrong direction. Don't blame others. No one ever changed by blaming another person. You cannot change your life by blaming others. You should look for reasons in your own heart if you have tears in your eye. My friend, who cries out for another person? Everybody wants something for themselves. When there's a smile, the cause is also within. Tears in the eye also indicate that the cause is inside. Whoever has realized that there is no reason outside is a non-religious person. Whoever has realized that everything that happens in his life is his own fault, the outcome of either conscious effort or lack thereof, has now become religious. You will then be free from sorrow. You will then find out that there has been a sudden revolution. Yesterday's pauper's robe, or the clothing of the beggar has now become the gold clothes of the Emperor. Diamonds and jewels are now available where pebbles, stones and other things were found yesterday. Buddha passes by the same spot where you passed. The eyes are not the same. Consciousness is different. Two ways are possible for a person to live. The first is that a person can live in two ways. It is hard to stop him. He is moving because he wants to know what you will do if you stopped. He is going because there is nothing else to do. One thing is that life happens in this way, unconsciously. There is also a conscious life where everything is thought through, planned and done with awareness. It is not accidental, nor is it based on unconsciousness or darkness. Unconsciousness in an action is sin. Unconsciousness can lead to a bad action. It is still a sin, even if it's called virtuous by the rest of society! The origin of an action determines the nature. It doesn't matter what people say. Alms were given to the beggar. You will be told that you have done a good thing. If the act was done unconscious, and not consciously, then that is sin, not virtue. It is sinful to give alms just because you think a few others will be watching. If the gift was not given out of love but rather out of self-interest, it's a crime. You cannot refuse if you give alms out of habit; you can't refuse if you want to be praised; people will know you as a donor. If your unconsciousness made you reach into your pockets and take the money, it is a sin. If someone gives alms while unconscious, he will not remember the act in the morning. You can determine the quality of your actions by determining where it came from. Even getting up or sitting down can be considered a good act if it was done in conscious state. If it was in an unconscious state then prayer or worship can be considered sin. It is important to know the origin. What is the origin of an action? Sin is the action performed in an unconscious state. Actions done while conscious are good. Both in this and the next world.

We should try to understand a bit of the sinner's life, since that is our life. Sin means unconsciousness. When you act in an unconscious manner, nothing will be achieved. What can an unconscious individual achieve? A person that is unaware passes through the garden. He will never be able to smell the flowers. Sun rays will continue to dance, but it doesn't matter if he sees them or not. He will be surrounded by the fragrance, and the breeze will cool him down, yet he will not even notice. The celebration will be denied to him if he isn't present. He who does not have consciousness cannot be present. In the moment and conscious are the same. A sinner will never be able to survive. A sinner can only plan to live. He either cherishes memories from a life that he never experienced, imagines a life he never will, or dreams. He never actually lives. Living is here and now. A sinner is deprived of the very life. Buddha does not say, as other religious gurus do, that sinners suffer because they have committed sins, and God makes them pay. Buddha has no tendency to include God in the equation. Buddha says that sinners are deprived of joy in both this life and the next. To be denied happiness is to suffer. Being deprived of happiness is painful. Being deprived of joy is like falling into hell. You are not being sent to hell nor punished. No one keeps a record or records your actions. But the sinner misses because of his way of living. One who misses this world, will also miss the next. The habit of missing grows stronger. Consider a few things. Do you live in the moment? Your mind may be elsewhere while you are eating. Your mind may be somewhere else while you are eating or praying. You are praying, but your mind is somewhere else. You will never be at home, even if God comes to look for you. Never are you at home. You are never at home. You're somewhere else. You don't know yourself where you are. If you don't have an address, how can he find you? It's like inviting a friend to your home, but when he gets there he doesn't find them. You will never find the host at home. The life you seek is also searching for your presence. This is something you should understand a bit more clearly. The life you are seeking is already searching for it. You are lost while searching for the life. You don't need to look for life, it is right in front of you. You are surrounded by it on all sides. From all directions, it is pouring. Every hair and every breath is alive with the excitement of living, the dancing of the life. What will you search for? You will be wrong wherever you are. It is not right to go. Going is wrong. Being is right. You miss out on the moment by going. Tomorrow, you say. We will be happy tomorrow. We haven't found the yesterdays, and we won't find the tomorrows, either, as tomorrow will never come. It appears to be approaching. Always, the same thing happens - It seems like it's coming, or that it already has, but never actually does. Today is what comes. Now is the time to act. Don't put off this moment. Whoever leaves today in order to live tomorrow is a sinner. A mind like that remembers past events. The most fascinating thing about this is that even though you are able to remember, you weren't there. You are also thinking that. You were not there when these things happened. My friend and I visited the Taj Mahal. It took us three to four hours. The night was full of moon. He couldn't see the Taj because he was taking photos. Even told him to buy and sell photographs in his village and home. It was unnecessary to travel so far. The photographs on the market were taken by better photographers. You're a Sikh. What do your photos mean? He said, no. We will return home to see them in peace. They are taking photos of the Taj Mahal in front us! Then they will return home to see the Taj Mahal in peace! Then they'll think what a gorgeous Taj Mahal it is! They haven't seen it. They must not have been there. The camera must have seen it. They're making a new album. You always look back at your childhood and think how wonderful it was. Was it you who was there? Did you ever take photos of Taj Mahal? No child is there. He dreams of youth. He wants to be older. He is eager to mature. He feels the elders enjoy a great deal. They have strength and power. I don't have anything. He's in a rush. He is in a hurry. Children will tell their dads they're bigger than them by standing on a chair. They are driven by a deep desire to become adults. Children start to smoke cigarettes only when they are older. It is smoked by elders. This is the symbol of an influential man. Smoking cigarettes gives children a sense of accomplishment that they are also adults. I was in a small village. Early in the morning, I went for a stroll. A small child was coming. It was early morning and I saw a small child coming. He could have only been six or seven years old, but his demeanor was something that made me keep looking. The child was walking with a cane in his hands, carrying it like an elderly man. He also had a moustache. As I watched him, he scurried and hidden behind a large tree. I went after him. I followed him. He went to his home. He removed his moustache quickly and put it into his pocket.

What was the problem? What's your problem? He had no answer. He might not have known either. He pretended to be an adult. A desire to grow up is growing. It's painful to be small. Everybody wants to grow up. The same child is going to grow up and tell his story of childhood. That childhood was paradise. This child has never been to that paradise, but only captured it in pictures. You will look at your album of photos when you are old. You also never experienced that youthful experience. You were never there. The disease that is causing this illness is sin. You've heard many different explanations for sin. This explanation may not have been given to you. Some people have claimed that doing something bad is sinful. I do not say so. Since I do not believe you can be wrong without doing something bad. It is therefore secondary. It is wrong to be wrong, but not wrong. Sins vanish from the life of a person who is right. The real issue isn't about right or wrong, but about rightness. Remember this distinction. This difference is crucial. You will correct the mistake for many years, but it will never be fixed. Like a drunkard who does not stop drinking but walks carefully. All drunkards do it. You will have noticed that drunkards do not walk with care. They try to be careful, even though they may fall. What would make a drunken person try to be careful? He is careful. It is not necessary to strive for this. Sober people do good things, but they don't actually perform them. The good works done by a person are useless. Ego is involved. A person who is sober performs good works, just as Buddha said, chalks are followed by a vehicle and a shadow, follows the individual. Unconscious, he also commits sins, just as chalks do when a vehicle passes. The road becomes marked with chalk when a car passes. These marks appear on their own. The vehicle will continue to move, so do not attempt to remove the marks. The car will continue to make new marks as you wipe off old marks. You should not fight the shadow because it will only disappear if you are lost. Only when you are lost will the shadow vanish. In very old tales, it was said that a person's shadow who is knowledgeable does not form. It does not mean if the person walks into sunlight, that his shadow will not form. It means the knowledge-acquired person has no actions left. There is only existence. He exists. His existence is so grandiose that it leaves no trace. The line of virtue has also been removed. It is a sin to leave someone's line. Action is not done. It isn't done. Krishna said this in the Gita: When you stop wanting results, your actions become non-actions. It's as if nothing happened. It's as if someone had drawn a line in the water. Then it was erased. Sin is living so that you don't exist where you actually are. It's always somewhere else... You will remember your childhood when you are old. You will remember your youth when you are young. You will think of your childhood when you're dying. It is paradoxical but true. Many people only realize that they are alive after death. It was something they never knew in their lives. They only realize they lived after death. Many people only realize that they were alive when something slips from their hand. It's a surprising fact! They still want it until it's in their hand. When it leaves their hands they remember it. And when it's in their hands they are shut out of the world. This is sin. Buddha said, "He weeps both in this and the next world." Both places are where the sinner is grieving. The same thing happens here and there. The practice of missing has become more frequent. You cannot get to heaven. You could have had it today if you were able to. Don't think you can get to heaven after you die. Heaven is everywhere, right here and now. Heaven has surrounded you at this moment. Heaven is all around you, yet you're not there. If you're not here today, how can you expect to be there tomorrow when you die? Presentness is not a practice. You will remain the same person even after you die. You will have a new birth every time. You will be the same person you used to be if you are born over and over again. You'll repeat. You'll repeat. Your life will not be a revolution, but a repetition. You will never see something new emerge in your life, but only old ashes. You will live a life that is not like an ember, but like a pile of ashes. The same things you did before will continue to be done.

Do you believe you would be happy if today your eyes were blindfolded, and that you were taken straight to heaven? Consider it for a moment. Even in the heavens, you will be unhappy. Hell will be there as well. You do not understand what is there. You would have been in heaven if you had not done so. You have indeed been abandoned in heaven. Your eyes are also not blindfolded. Take another look at the flowers. Take a second look at the flowers. As if for the first time, listen to the bird songs. Connect with the world as if it were your first time. Immerse yourself once again in this moment of celebration. You will suddenly find heaven. Heaven was not far from us, so we did miss it. It was not because heaven is far away that we missed it. "One mourns both in this life and in the afterlife; a sinner is grieved in both." He suffers when he sees his filthy deeds. If you look back at the past nothing but dirty acts are visible. Sleeping men can only do dirty things. The dirty acts are his entire story and history. Like someone painted the picture while sleeping. It is hard to understand. The colours are haphazard. It looks like a puzzle. Colours are randomly arranged. You cannot make out anything. It looks like it was painted by an insane person. You will also find madmen who praise the painting. You will find that others also sleep so much. There will be people that will compliment your life because they also are like you. A Picasso exhibition was recently held in Paris. A large crowd gathered around one of the paintings. People were very complimentary. The painting was accidentally hung upside-down. When Picasso arrived, he hung it upright. It was praised by many. They didn't even realize that the painting was upside-down. Picasso's works are difficult to distinguish whether they are upright or upside down. Also, it is difficult to tell how Picasso did this. They look like they were painted by a crazy person. Picasso was said to have asked a millionaire American for two pictures. The American millionaire was willing to pay anything. He needed to buy two paintings because he had just built a house. Picasso only had one ready painting. He cut the painting in two with a pair of scissors. The two paintings were given to him, and he took their price. You can't be certain. It is difficult to be sure. Picasso's works reflect the complete madness of mankind. If his works are so highly regarded, it is because they accurately depict the state of the human mind. After a while, if you look at Picasso's works carefully you may start to feel disturbed. If you stare at the paintings for some time, you'll start to feel disturbed. You will be insane if you stare at it all night. It's as if somebody has been throwing colours while in a state of insanity or unconsciousness. This is your life. You will want to commit suicide if you see yourself in the mirror today. No worries, you say. You say, "No worries." Courage grows. It is as if the head and legs have grown stronger. There is no need to be worried, the tomorrow will come. Tomorrow, all your hopes will come true; seeds will sprout; buds will blossom. Tomorrow will come. Tomorrow never arrives. Every day, you push tomorrow further away. One day, you will die. Sinners hope for the afterlife. This will surprise you. The soul of the pious does not speak about afterlife. It is right here and now, says the pious spirit. The pious person does not claim that God sits in the heavens. In the pious heart, God surrounds you on all sides. He breathes in and out with every breath. Sinners say that God sits in the skies. A pious person looks within and discovers God. Sinners look around but do not find God. The sinner sees enemies everywhere. He believes that God sits in the heavens. Some support is required because it's difficult to live with so many enemies. Sinners seek support from their imagination. He cannot find support in the real world because he does not understand how to live in it. He didn't make that much of an effort. The man kept thinking that heaven would be his after death You don't know how to live, Oh sheikh He did not learn the art of living, the way, the style of living. He lived in the hope that when he dies, there will be heaven, heaven. He who has not found heaven here, will not find it anywhere. He who has lost it here, will lose it everywhere. 'A sinner grieves in this world as well as in the next world.' 'He is happy in this world as well as in the next world; a virtuous soul is happy in both the worlds.' These words of Buddha are very lovely. He is happy, blooms, dances, is happy in this world. 'He is happy in this world as well as in the next world.'

One is happy in this world, one is happy in the other world; a virtuous soul is happy in both the worlds.' Why? One who has learnt to be happy here, has learnt to be happy everywhere. The real question is not about the world, the real question is about the art of being happy. One who has learnt to laugh; one who has learnt to dance; one who has caught the tune of life; and one who has learnt to be in sync with the song of life; one who has started feeling the rhythm of life; one whose feet have started moving in sync with the dance of life; one whose heart has been touched by the flute of life; he is happy everywhere. You cannot send him to hell. The scriptures say, a virtuous soul goes to heaven, a sinner goes to hell. The matter is totally different. A sinner cannot go anywhere else. It is not that he is sent to hell. Send him anywhere, a sinner finds hell. It is not that the virtuous soul is sent to heaven. Who is there to keep all the accounts? Who will keep all this arrangement going? Who cares? Send the virtuous soul anywhere, he reaches heaven. I used to read a story. There was a great thinker of Europe, Edmund Burke. He used to go to listen to a priest every day. One day the priest said in the church that those who are virtuous and believe in God, they go to heaven. Edmund Burke stood up. He said, I want to ask one thing. You said two things, that those who are virtuous and believe in God, they go to heaven. I ask that those who are virtuous and do not believe in God, where do they go? And I also want to ask that those who believe in God but are not virtuous, where do they go? Edmund Burke's curiosity was absolutely genuine. The priest was also left stunned. Now what should he say? He was very confused. If he says that those who are virtuous and do not believe in God, they also go to heaven; So naturally Burke will say, then what is the need to believe in God? Virtue itself is enough. And if I say that those who are virtuous and do not believe in God, do not go to heaven; then Burke will say, then what is the need to get into the hassle of virtue? Faith in God is enough. The priest said, you have confused me. Give me some time to think; tomorrow. The priest could not sleep the whole night. The man must have been devoted. He must have been intelligent, not clever. He thought a lot, but the confusion was not resolved. Early in the morning, at dawn, he fell asleep thinking about what he had been up all night. In his sleep, he saw a dream that he was sitting in a train. He asked people, where is this train going? They said, it is going to heaven. He said, it is good! This is what I wanted to ask. It is good, I will see it with my own eyes. So he thought of names in his mind--like Socrates; he did not believe in God, he was a virtuous man. Like Buddha; where else will you find a real image of virtue than this? But man did not believe in God. So he said, okay, if Buddha and Socrates meet in heaven, then the answer becomes clear that there is no need to believe in God. If they are not found in heaven, then also the answer becomes clear that nothing will happen by virtue, the real thing is faith in God. He got down at the station of heaven, was very surprised. The station was very sad. As if dust of many ages had accumulated and no one had cleaned it. He was a little surprised. He went and looked carefully at the board, and it was written heaven. He entered the village, it was very dull. Flowers did not seem to be blooming anywhere. And the sound of Veena was not coming from any house. He did not find anyone dancing anywhere. He did meet some – religious gurus, priests, sages; but there was no excitement. It was as if dead people were walking. He did not find any festival anywhere. Life seemed like a burden there. He asked many people – Socrates, Gautam Buddha? People said, I have not heard the names. They are not here. Search somewhere else, in hell. He ran to the station and asked if it was the train to hell. Luckily, it was standing there and was about to leave. He sat down. When he reached hell, he was very surprised. As if he was entering a festival. The station was very clean. It felt alive. Flowers were blooming, songs were playing, people walked and their feet were moving, there was gaiety, there was colourfulness, it was as if the rainbow of life had bloomed. He was very surprised that something was wrong. There was some mistake in the name, in the plaque. This should be heaven. He asked about Socrates and Buddha? They said, yes, they are here. And there is no mistake in the name. This hell has become heaven only because of their arrival. call

He woke up. He woke up in panic, wondering what was the matter? The dream was gone. When he went to the church in the morning, he said, brother, I will not be able to say anything else, but I had a dream last night, I will repeat it in reply. In the dream, I It appeared like this; to what extent it is true, to what extent it is false, I cannot say anything. I do not have the power to decide this. I saw this much and that is that wherever virtuous men reach, there is heaven. Wherever sinners reach, there is hell. It is not true that sinners go to hell. Sinners carry their hell with them. And it is not true that virtuous souls go to heaven. Virtuous souls carry their heaven with them. You can throw them anywhere. And I also feel it. It does not seem like a dream, it seems true. Even if you throw Buddha in hell, you will not be able to put him in hell. It is impossible. Buddha will create heaven there. Buddha carries his heaven with him, it is the air of Buddha's life. It is the weather blowing around him. You will not be able to snatch it from him. Hell will change, Buddha will not change. You cannot make Buddha unhappy, so how can you put him in hell? You cannot make your so-called religious leaders happy, how can you send them to heaven? You were obsessed with the thought that you will get heaven only after death Oh Sheikh, you did not know how to live Oh religious leader, you did not know how to live. You lived in the hope that you will get heaven only after death. The one who did not get heaven while alive, how will he get it after death? When you missed it while alive, how will you get it after death? If there is heaven, it is connected to life, not death. If there is heaven, it comes out of life. How will it come out of death? Heaven is not in the graveyard. Heaven is there where life dances in thousands of colors. Heaven is there where the melody of life is playing in thousands of tones. Heaven is there where you become as deeply alive as possible. Heaven is not shrinking, it is expansion. That is why Hindus have called their ultimate truth Brahma. Brahma means, vast. Brahma means that which keeps on expanding. That which has no limit. Have you ever noticed, sorrow shrinks, happiness expands. The nature of sadness is to shrink. When you are sad, you want to sit with your doors closed. No one should come to meet you, you should not have to talk to anyone, you should not have to go to the market. Then you want to shut yourself up. You want to shrink and lie down in bed. If a person becomes very sad, he starts trying to die. He wants to go to the grave, so that he never meets anyone again. He wants to be alone. That is why a sad person commits suicide. But when happiness fills you, when great happiness descends, when you are dancing, then if someone tells you to sit at home, you will say, no, I have to go now, I have to share now, I have to spread now. You have seen that when Mahavira and Buddha were sad, they ran away to the forest. But when they became happy, when nectar descended in their lives, they returned back to the village. No one has ever thought about this, that when they were sad, they ran away to the forest – alone. There are great stories about him in the scriptures, that he left everything and went to the forest. But the scriptures do not say anything about this, that one day he left the forest and came back to the village. That second incident is even more important. Because when bliss entered his life, the feeling of sharing also came. With bliss comes compassion. With bliss comes a desire to share, to plunder. Give to others what you have got. Because bliss has a nature: share, it increases; do not share, it decreases. Plunder, it grows; hide, it dies. We have named the ultimate truth Brahma. It is called Sachchidananda, and Brahma. Brahma means that which keeps expanding. That which does not shrink anywhere, which keeps expanding. Whose nature is expansion. When your life blossoms, it spreads like a flower, fragrance emanates. When you wilt in sorrow, you close down, shrink, become stagnant. The flow stops. Keep this in mind-- 'One is happy in this world.' The word 'mudit' is very important. This word has come from the world of flowers--pramudit. Mudit means--to bloom, to blossom, to spread. 'One is happy in this world.' The sound of the word 'mudit' is also blooming. 'And in the other world too.' Because the other world is not somewhere else. It comes out of this world. It is the chain of this world. It is the next step of this world. Your spiritual life is the next step of your worldly life. Your temple is the next step of your home. The temple which is against the home is not a temple. The spirituality which is against the world is not spirituality. The tomorrow which is against today is false. The other world which is against this world, that other world will be only in your aspirations, in your dreams, it is not in the truth. Because in the truth everything is connected. Your home and temple are two stages of the same journey of life. The world and God are two steps of the same journey. 'One is happy in this world and in the next world too; the pious soul is happy in both the worlds. He is happy and delighted seeing the purity of his deeds.'

And when you look back -- if there has been light in the way you live, if you have lived with care, if you have taken steps consciously -- then when you look back, it is a journey full of light, with diamonds studded on every step! And the staggering of a drunkard is not seen in your steps, the steadiness of consciousness is seen; and the journey does not seem to be just a journey, it seems to be a pilgrimage. The pious soul is happy even after returning. There was heaven in the past, there is heaven in the future too, because there is heaven now. For the one who has heaven now, heaven spreads on both sides. And for the one who does not have heaven now, hell spreads on both sides. Everything depends on this moment. This moment is decisive. 'One suffers in this world and in the next world too; the sinner suffers in both the worlds. I have committed a sin He gets distressed by saying this. After attaining a bad state, he again gets distressed.' 'Even if someone memorizes many Samhitas, but does not follow them due to negligence, then he is like a cowherd who counts other people's cows, and he does not deserve to be a Shramani.' Even if someone memorizes the entire Veda, memorizes Samhitas, but does not follow them; no matter how knowledgeable he becomes, but if knowledge does not become his life, then he will live in sin. Virtue has nothing to do with knowing. It has to do with living. O Sheikh Cafe-Life, where is the pleasure of drinking in dry words You will get it only by drinking You can remember as many things related to drinking, you can memorize all the formulas of alcohol, you can remember what has been said about God, you can memorize as many Samhitas--you will get it only by drinking. Where in dry talk... The pleasure that is in drinking can only be found by drinking So Buddha says that till the time what you have known is not your life, till the time there is a difference between your living and your knowing, you will wander. When your knowing will be your life, and your living will be your knowing; when there will be no difference between your being and your understanding; when the Samhita will not be in the throat, but in the heart; when the Vedas will not be just an itch of the brain, but will become the feeling of the heart; then even if the words are forgotten, the principles will be forgotten, but you will be the living proof, you will be the principle. Even if you do not have any argument to prove the existence of God, you yourself will have become the argument. Your presence will become the proof. That is why Buddha does not talk about God. He himself is the proof of God. If someone does not believe in him after seeing him, how can he be convinced even by giving arguments? One day a young man asked Buddha that I do not believe in happiness, nirvana, salvation. Please be kind and explain to me. Buddha said, look at me; and if you don't believe me after seeing me, how can you believe me after I say it? I am present here as proof. And if you cannot see me, how will you be able to hear me? The one who saw me, did not need to listen. And the one who only focused on listening will not be able to see me. 'Even if someone memorizes many scriptures, but due to negligence, he does not follow them.' Knowing is very easy. Because knowing gives great satisfaction to the ego. I have become the knower; I remember all the four Vedas; others are ignorant, I am the knower -- there is an arrogance in knowing, there is an arrogance, there is negligence. That is why you will find the Pandit very arrogant. Arrogance is leper, impotent. There is nothing inside, but you will find the Pandit very arrogant. He declares everywhere without saying that I know. Ego does not diminish by knowing, it increases. It falls by living. One who walks even one step on the path of God or the path of truth will start bowing down. One who walks even a million steps on the path of scriptures, far from bowing down, will become even more arrogant. Scriptures fill up the head even more, they do not erase it. Scriptures take one further away from the heart, they do not bring one closer. No one finds the truth in the scriptures. Ego becomes stronger with the scriptures. 'Even if someone memorizes many scriptures, but due to negligence does not follow them, then he is like a cowherd who counts the cows of others.' It is a very beautiful symbol. Like a cowherd gathers the cows of your entire village and takes them to the forest, grazes them the whole day, keeps count, and brings them back; he says, he has returned after grazing five hundred cows. Not even one cow among them is yours! All others belong to others. No matter how beautiful the Vedas are, they are other's cows. No matter how beautiful the Upanishads are, they are other's cows. What is yours? Will you remain a cowherd? When will you become the master? By learning the words, a man remains a cowherd. And no matter how many cows he has, not even one is his own. All are borrowed, all belong to others. But even cowherds have arrogance. If one cowherd keeps a hundred cows and another has five hundred, then the one with five hundred is more arrogant. He says, what are you in front of me? He grazes a hundred cows, I graze five hundred.